cheryl jennings and kristen sze are off today. terry mcsweeney is live on east bay shore road with an update. >> reporter: take a look at the creek now you wouldn't know it was flooding last night it was the biggest since el nino hit in '98. tomorrow when you are enjoying your christmas keep in mind the folks here will be half soggy christmas. paris sims looks at her home and hopes when santa comes tonight he brings lots of new carpeting. >> neighbor comes knocking the water is coming over we begin to open all the gates and the water was just flooded within seconds you had water this high in the front yard. >> reporter: kicking back in a christmas mood last night. >> policeman telling me we got to get evacuated. we started panicking because i have a little baby. >> reporter: this morning the waters receded concerns have not. spokesman for the menlo park fire protection district says the levees along san francisquito creek have been damaged. he says the california conservation grove will shore up the levee temporarily until this su